Health

Introduction One of the immediate impacts of the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law is a provision, Section 71113, that blocks certain reproductive health care providers (who also provide abortions) from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursement for one year. The law impacts three organizations: (1) Planned Parenthood; (2) Maine Family Planning, a network of clinics in Maine, (3) and Health Imperatives, a network of specialized reproductive health clinics based in Massachusetts. Shortly after President…

Key Takeaways In September, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced in a letter to Republican lawmakers that the FDA would conduct a safety review of mifepristone, the abortion pill, twenty-five years after it was first approved for use. Public awareness of the pill and its longstanding safety record is…

Jonny HumphriesNorth West Handout William Chapman, known as Syd, believed he was going to fully recover Hospital doctors failed to tell a father-of-seven he was terminally ill and falsely reassured him he would recover, the health ombudsman has found. William Chapman, known as Syd, was told “not to worry” by doctors at the Countess of…

BBC Laura Tongue and Shane Bevan said delays were “cruel” for families at “their lowest point in grief” Grieving families are waiting up to a year to find out how children have died due to a shortage of pathologists. Among those who have faced a delay for post-mortem results are Shane Bevan and Laura Tongue,…

Leigh Boobyer,BBC Walesand John Maguire,Swansea Family handout Kyle Sieniawski, 14, is believed to be the youngest person in the UK to have died with motor neurone disease The family of a teenage boy who died after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has warned the rare, degenerative condition can hit “anybody at any age,…

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Getty Images The NHS must take diseases like pneumonia and flu in older people much more seriously, England’s chief medical officer has warned. Sir Chris Whitty said some doctors do not appreciate that an infection can significantly increase the risk of a stroke or heart attack. His comments come as the number of flu patients…

Key Takeaways Marketplace enrollees largely see health insurance as very important to their ability to access care, to their financial well-being, and to their peace of mind; however, if the enhanced premium tax credits are not extended, many of the twenty-four million adults in the U.S. who currently buy their own insurance through the ACA…

If the amount they pay in premiums doubled, about one in three enrollees in Affordable Care Act Marketplace health plans say they would be “very likely” to look for a lower-premium Marketplace plan (with higher deductibles and co-pays) and one in four would “very likely” go without insurance next year, finds a new survey of…

Young women say they were taught how to open a bank account in school, but not about their own health. Source link